It was the love affair that could never be, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans.

The two sides came together en masse Tuesday for the first time since Obama took the oath of office. Despite the niceties, both sides walked away spurned.

In many ways, Obama told the assembled Republicans everything they would want to hear, according to people in the meetings.

He promised to make tough spending choices in his first budget blueprint  everyone will have to take a haircut, he said. He told them he wouldnt increase the size of government just to increase the size of government. He even teased House Minority Leader John A. Boehner about his golf swing.

Likewise, Republicans left the meeting with kind words for the president  but still resolved to oppose him on the floor Wednesday when Democrats bring his massive economic stimulus plan up for a vote.

Beneath the polite give and take between the new president and the newly disempowered Republican caucus, there was a sense that Obamas honeymoon had already begun to ebb. For the first time, it seems, congressional Republicans, shut out of power and seemingly cowed by the harsh verdict of voters and wild popularity of the new president, are finding their voice, rallying in large numbers against the centerpiece of Obamas agenda.

The GOP needs to just say, NO! Let the ‘RATS have full credit for the coming disaster (they created, IMHO). The ‘RATS wanted total control of the country. They’ve got it. Why be token GOPers just going along with this fiasco in a phony “spirit of bipartisanship.” STAND UP AND SAY NO!!!!! Remember what the ‘RATS and their media toadies always say, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” Let’s be patriotic and say, NO!

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posted on 01/27/2009 9:11:21 PM PST
by FlingWingFlyer
(I wish it was 20 January 2013. I've had enough of this crap already.)

Because the Paulson bailout was sold to the American people as loans to be paid back with interest. I remember hearing that we, the people, would actually likely be making money on the bailout from September. This new bailout is just a free money giveaway to the people who sent money to 0bama’s campaign. We will be paying for it for decades.

We need the GOP Senators to put together a FILIBUSTER and shut down the stimulus bill down, so they go back and rewrite it. We can do that with 41 unified Senate Republicans, its a long shot, but doable if every GOP Senator gets on board.

Without a principled conservative opposition to the already excessive liberalism of Obama and the Democrats, the Republicans will have no credibility in 2010. Now is the time to take a stand and filibuster this bad bill.

There are specific demands that must be made:

#1 - filibuster against any spending that occurs after this fiscal year, and insist spending be done later in appropriations for next year; 100% of spending should be focussed SOLELY on this year and out-year spending should be in followup appropriations as conditions warrant. Why tie the USA to trillion dollar debt now for spending that will occur well after the recession is over?

#2 - no spending unless all tax laws are extended until 2013; in short, by raising taxes in 2010, the Democrats are cutting the economy off at the knees; they are killing, not stimulating, the economy; filibuster any bill that does not include delaying the increase in taxes.

#3 - No money for ACORN, for Planned Parenthood, for general pet projects that simply add to Government spending; filibuster any bill that has offensive, wasteful, non-stimulus spending; filibuster any bill that has pork and earmarks.

If the GOP votes for a bill with ACORN money in it, they are finished as a party.

There's enough money for ACORN to install thousands of community organizers and politicians to take significant control of this country. This bill does nothing more than make Obama's reelection a certainty.

The fact that Obama's using it in this manner is tyrannical. It totally undermines the principles of democracy.

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posted on 01/27/2009 11:50:08 PM PST
by TheThinker
(Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)

It's about time! Why wasn't Boehner talking like this when Paulson bailout came to a vote????

he was...I recall the press release whereby he even asked for a special prosecutor to be assigned to investigate matters around fannie mae/et al...the republicans are dealing with the same politics in the House right now they dealt with during the bailout 'hearings' - being shut out of all dealings/meetings and getting very very little press about it imo moo jmo

Obama first sold us the idea of the Stimulus on the premise that it would be used for repairing and rebuilding America's infrastructure. We immediately thought of the broken bridges and fractured freeways in our cities. Surprise! Only 4% of the 800 billion would be used for those things. The rest? Pork!

So I say we contact our congressmen and demand that, after setting aside the 32 billion for bridges and freeways, the rest should be divided among the 139 million people who filed tax returns in 2007. That comes to about $5525 that each taxpayer would be reimbursed. I know there are many filers who pay no actual tax, or very little. It doesn't matter. Those are the ones who will spend their refunds with the greatest abandon. Even if they merely used it to pay down their credit cards, no matter. The point is that 139 million people would do much less harm with all that money than 535 congressmen padding their pockets and those of their cronies.

KLBJ had Senator Kay B. Hutchison and Rep. John R. Carter on this morning. Both are voting against the respective bills. I haven’t heard what Representative Lamar S. Smith will do, but I expect him to do the same.

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posted on 01/28/2009 7:49:10 AM PST
by Arrowhead1952
(Dissent is patriotic - Hussein is not and will never be my president.)

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